Tower defence
Dec. 13th, 2013 09:23 pmAfter I posted complaining about the shrinking market for casual games sold on the model where you pay a few quid once to get a complete, playable game, lots of you made helpful suggestions. Now my play queue is longer than the time I have available for gaming, which is a much better problem to have, so thank you all very much!
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In other zombie news, I am very much enjoying Zombies, Run to make my regular running less boring. I was hoping for gamification, but in lots of ways it's more an interactive story than a game. Very good and engaging story, though, and innovative in the ways it could really only be played on a smartphone. And I am having far too much fun with Terraria; the recent big update has added a lot of interesting, playable content to the game as well as tweaking the balance in ways that are almost all improvements. One of the things I really like about Terraria is that it's fun and engaging without being addictive; it's pretty non-linear, but effectively you can choose a particular task or quest, carry it out and then stop. I've played over a hundred hours (!) not because it's manipulating my brain's reward pathways to have just one more go, but because it's just enjoyable. It's somewhat expensive for a casual game on Steam, but it's also quite often on sale.
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In other zombie news, I am very much enjoying Zombies, Run to make my regular running less boring. I was hoping for gamification, but in lots of ways it's more an interactive story than a game. Very good and engaging story, though, and innovative in the ways it could really only be played on a smartphone. And I am having far too much fun with Terraria; the recent big update has added a lot of interesting, playable content to the game as well as tweaking the balance in ways that are almost all improvements. One of the things I really like about Terraria is that it's fun and engaging without being addictive; it's pretty non-linear, but effectively you can choose a particular task or quest, carry it out and then stop. I've played over a hundred hours (!) not because it's manipulating my brain's reward pathways to have just one more go, but because it's just enjoyable. It's somewhat expensive for a casual game on Steam, but it's also quite often on sale.
